Unauthorize to access to source publishing history in archive from a private build

[Łukasz Zemczak]

It's hard to find a good summary for this issue. The issue is: whenever a package has been built in some private PPA, LP API will not be able to get the latest source publication from that build. This is a bit troublesome as we're using getLatestSourcePublication() to get the binary -> source binding. Log from #launchpad-dev :

16:45 < sil2100> b = archive.getPublishedBinaries(binary_name='ca-certificates', version='20141019ubuntu0.15.04.1', exact_match=True)
16:45 < sil2100> b[0].build.getLatestSourcePublication()
16:45 < sil2100> I get a 401 - unauthorized
16:45 < sil2100> I just want to get the source package of a published binary - how can I be unauthorized?
16:49 < cjwatson> sil2100: so, that's a bit awkward - the build was actually off in the security PPA, and you're unauthorized because you can't see the source package publishing history *there*
16:50 < cjwatson> sil2100: can you file a bug about this? there are a couple of different plausible solutions and I want to consult with wgrant when he reappears

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

https://code.launchpad.net/~cjwatson/launchpad/+git/launchpad/+merge/376459 solves a related problem and makes it possible to at least identify the source package version.